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New fritzing release 0.9!

We’re happy to announce the release of a new fritzing version! It comes with a bunch of improvements on the inside and outside. Here’s the scoop:

Upgrade to Qt5

Fritzing is written on top the Qt cross-platform application framework. We have upgraded to their latest version Qt5, which brings stability and speed improvements (especially for Mac OS X users). This also enables us to port fritzing to Android, iOS, etc. — that is, in theory. We still need to give that a try. Thanks to Jonathan and contributor Rohan Lloyd!

Major part family additions

This release brings a number of new parts, especially a number of popular microcontrollers, as the result of several collaboration efforts:

ADI analog parts, which make use of split schematics and SPICE output, a new feature sponsored by Analog Devices we will write more about soon

In addition, there are several new PCB shapes for Raspberry Pi, Intel Galileo, SparkCore that will make your boards look cooler. Here’s a snapshot of the Intel Galileo shield in action for the Data Monster: Finally, the usual set of bugfixes, and nicely updated translations: French (thanks to Arnold Dumas!), German (thanks to atalanttore!), Ukrainian (thanks to netavek!).

No, I would have to do a more thorough test to write a proper bug report and it doesn’t really bug me. The snapping of parts seems to work correctly on Linux and the autorouting of PCBs sometimes work, so I’m not sure.

These might not necessarily be bugs: The snapping cannot always succeed if not all pins are on the grid. The algorithm always picks pin number 1 and snaps it, the other pins follow that.
The autorouter sometimes also cannot succeed, have a loot at issue 2935.
But obviously it’s sometimes confusing and we might need to fix the UI in that case.